Overseas fishers prepare to take cray share
As South Australia bans Southern Rock Lobster fishing in October, fishers from overseas are preparing to pick up the slack
Unease across Tasman
Tasmanian crayfishers say they fear that New Zealand could capitalise on Australia's predicted rock lobster shortage next month. The South Australian government has banned fishing during October, and has capped quotas at 1250...
Pre-Hurricane Rising Hatchery Rainbow Blues
Stocked trout that will hit a cigarette butt.
Playing with rainbow trout when the heat’s in the high 90s doesn’t seem natural. But when the trout aren’t exactly natural either, and an impending storm rolls the heat back, well, they’re not bred to be sagacious.
Kiwi fishermen to benefit from ban
Tasmanian crayfishers say that they fear that New Zealand could capitalise on Australia's predicted rock lobster shortage next month.
Cousteau urges action on fishing
The son of famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau has urged Australia to protect its marine environment as a way to ensure future viability of the fishing industry.
Mystery of the Floating Octopus Solved
As far back as Aristotle, naturalists have wondered why the females of a strange group of octopuses sport a thin, papery shell when plenty of their tentacled cousins are essentially naked, letting all their slime hang out.
Fishing one way to go on an adventure
The adventure of the unknown still exists while fishing. One never knows what will be attracted to a bait from the unseen depths. Adrenalin rushes through the nervous system, triggering a muscle reflex; it’s hooked and “hook up” is shouted. The primordial struggle with nature’s unknown begins, the anticipation of hearing, “I see color.” As[...]
Pressure building on Kimberley coast
The Montara oil spill off Western Australia's Kimberley Coast could have been so much worse.
RICH PICKINGS: Sharing the pain
Some of Australia's richest sharemarket investors have copped a drubbing over the past year, but a handful remained buoyant. 4 Sep 2010 12:08 AM
Kimberley calling
Mark and Darrin are mates. And they found that friendship, and a big part of themselves, in the Kimberley.
